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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2179223" data-attributes="member: 172">I used to maintain a spreadsheet of everything I reviewed so I could quantify the relative value of items.I think right off the bat, you need to consider products of similar size and format, or the comparison loses validity. As efficiency goes, you will find that shorter products have much higher cost per page than larger products. But does that mean "bigger is better"? I don't think so. If a 8 page pdf costs more per page than a 224 book, it is arguably worth it if those 8 pages are all making an active contributions to you game, and only a small sliver of that 224 page hardbound is. Which is genrally the case. (I get great use out of Complete Book of Eldritch Might, but it has lots of stuff I don't use. But if I could chop out the variant core classes and spellsongs, the value to ME per page would jump considerably.)But still, one lesson to take home here is that if you are buying lots of pdfs, you might want to wait for the compilation.On the same note, when I started comparing the price per page of the mini-adventures by FFG and AEG is when I decided that they weren't worth it. They were about $.5 per full 8 1/2 x 11" page.I did find the comparison very useful however. At the time I was maintaining the database, some customers were complaining that some books were too costly, yet some publishers were retorting that they could not be cheaper. Yet if you stacked up similar books against one another, you could see that certain publishers were cheaper and some were more pricey. Admitted, these were often due to issues a publisher can't control like size of saleable print runs, but when looked at from the perspective of value it provides to a customer, these issues are relatively immaterial.One other thing I would caution regarding Yair's comparisons is that he seems to be lumping in newer and older works. There was a pretty significant market wide price jump, especially in hardbacks, about a year ago, when the $25, 224+ page hardbounds (principly from White Wolf) went the way of the dino. This will cause his analysis to favor older products. Which is not an entirely invalid judgement where these products are still available, but usually older products do no directly compete with newer products.</blockquote>

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